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They don’t use certificates!

Aleksandar Pavlov — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:11:42 +0000

As a growing service we have a lot of conversations with potential partners. In a few of these talks we had early stalls. Managers of companies in the education business were giving us the statement that they don’t use certificates.

There are only two reasons for them not to issue certificates to their participants.

First – they do not have the time or resources to prepare and send all the certificates.
Second – they are not in business anymore.

Retiffy helps to solve both reasons.

It takes all the hassle from you in managing the certificates. Everything is easy, managed automatically and requires a minimal work from you as we wrote in earlier blog post.
The longer you provide a great experience and build more credibility with electronic certificates, the longer you will be in business.

I am issuing paper certificates. Is this enough to build credibility?

admin — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:39:03 +0000

Paper certificates are a great tool to build credibility. But often after receiving them we put them into a folder and into a cabinet and truth be told – we forget about them. Although they are a good memory, your organization could not benefit from their main goal – to present the new knowledge to the world so that you could build more credibility and attract more clients.

This is where electronic verifiable certificates from Retiffy step in. They could be downloaded and printed, but they could also be shared and tracked.

A few years ago we personally tried giving paper certificates to out students. Printed on a white paper and put into a plastic they looked really beautiful. Here is one of them:

Paper in this case meant “invisible to more then a few people”

What we noticed is that after students receive them only their parent and probably siblings see the certificates. This, we thought, was definitely not fair for the efforts the student has put. So we start issuing paper and electronic certificates to our students. And even today we issue electronic certificates, we print them, hand them out to the students and after that send them on their email.

“We did issue certificates in the past – but it was too much work for our small volunteer staff. “

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:03:24 +0000

Client: We did issue certificates in the past – but we printed them ourselves and mailed them and it was too much work for our small volunteer staff. I will check out Retiffy and see if it would work for us.

We have just received an email with the above question. It seems the team at this organization has understood the importance of online certificates and the management of the certification process. They were also sending an email to each participant with his certificate, but it probably was a very tedious process.

This is something we also found out a few years ago and build Retiffy especially for this need. We wanted to easily just upload a spreadsheet of the participants and make everything else automatic. Retiffy generates the certificates, sends the emails to the students and tracks their popularity on the Internet. And since we are feeling the same pain we have made it really easy.

This is what we answered our customer:

“We had similar problem in the school of Robotics in the past. Filling 20 certificates by hand was a chore.

Now it takes a few clicks: we have all students info in a spreadsheet, we upload that spreadsheet in the application and the certificates are generated.
I lose most of my time in the copy store to print them for the kids graduating the class “